Payments are also referred to as expenditures (creating or incurring a legal obligation to disburse money) or disbursements (the payment of expenditures). Payments include disbursements and accounting adjustments made on a contract. Payments are always positive amounts while accounting adjustments may be positive or negative depending on the type of adjustment.

If a payment or adjustment to a contract was made before July 1, 2012, the information may not be posted in this system.